Bottle for liquid dairy products



May 10, 1955 E. SOKOLIK BOTTLE FOR LIQUID DAIRY PRODUCTS Filed March 5, 1952 IN V EN TOR.

d States Patent Ofiice 2,708,049 Patented May 10, 1955 My present invention relates to improvements in bottles for liquid dairy products and the primary object of the invention is to provide a dairy bottle that eliminates all the undesirable qualities and incorporates all the desirable qualities in a dairy bottle.

Another object is to provide a dairy bottle that has a drainage non-soilable grasping and handling lower neckportion and bottle body;

A still another object is to provide a bottle that may be poured and handled with facility, the bottle not soiling the hand and consequently not slipping out of the hand, said bottle and hand being kept sanitary;

A further object is to provide a bottle with a pouring lip adapted to drain back into the pouring orifice;

A still further object is to provide a bottle with a neck resistant to chipping in the process of handling and adapted for expeditious washability; and

An object is to provide a bottle with a neck, the upper soilable portion of which is adapted to be noncontaminable by the handling hand and wholly and expeditiously coverable by a cover-all cap, which is provided to keep said soilable portion sanitary.

These and other objects will be apparent in the course of the specification.

Invention resides in the combination, the arrangements, the structure and the shape of the structure together producing a manufacture of new and unexpected result, which is advanced general utility.

Figures 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are views partly in vertical section and partly in elevation and illustrate each a species of the invention.

Fig. 6 is a diametrical vertical section of the cover-all cap of Fig. 4.

The species shown in Fig. 1 will be described as an exemplary embodiment.

The bottle body 7 is provided with the streamlined and symmetrical neck-portion 8 in which the invention resides. This neck-portion 8 includes a drainage soilable upper portion 9 and a grasping and handling lower neck-portion 18 of the main neck-portion 8.

The upper portion 9 embraces a new combination, arrangement and design of features, whereby a dairy bottle of new and unexpected sanitary result is evolved. This upper portion 9 embraces a pair of superposed annular projections in the form of a pouring lip 11 and a flange 12 having an annular channel 13 formed in the top surface thereof for collecting and holding the drainage from said pouring lip 11.

The outer surface 14- coextensive between the pouring lip 11 and the flange 12 is a draining surface in the form of an annular S with the upper loop thereof substantially abbreviated and the lower loop forming the channel 13 into which it drains from the pouring lip 11.

The pouring lip 11 forms the head, with a pouring orifice formed therein, of the neck-portion 8. It is provided with an acutely curved annular dropping bead 15 sharply to cut-off the pouring stream when the pouring bottle is being arighted. This pouring lip 11 is substantially pro- Lil jected and reenforced and has a top surface that slopes radially inwardly and downwardly to the pouring orifice preferably right from the divide 16 of the dropping bead 15 to drain the top surface back into the orifice which may be provided with an annular recessed seat for a disc cap. The periphery of this pouring lip 11 is provided with one or more sections of internal screw-threadlike means 18 in a horizontal plane, each angled like a screw-thread terminating open at the top edge of the periphery of the pouring lip 11.

The flange 12 is in the form of an annular stop encircling the neck-portion 8 substantially in superposed alignment with the pouring lip, thereby avoiding the pouring stream as the pouring bottle is being arighted and at the same time being adapted to be encompassed, together with the pouring lip 11, by the-ksirt 19 of the same cover-all cap 20. The functions of this flange 12 are threefold; it carries the drainage collecting and holding channel 13 to prevent soiling of the bottle below the flange 12; it serves as an anti-slip stop for the hand handling the bottle and it serves as a rest for the bottle upon the rim of the utensil into which the bottle is being poured. This flange 12 furthermore is located on the neck-portion 8 appropriately at a point below which the bottle is normally grasped and handled, thereby affording a ready anti-slip for the hand to prevent the bottle from slipping out of hand, or the hand from slipping up to the pouring lip and contaminating same. The channel 13 in the flange 12 is concavelike and shallow for expeditious washability and the periphery thereof, together with the periphery of the pouring lip 11, is streamlined to resist chipping of said projections 11 and 12 in the process of handling.

The grasping and handling portion 10 of the neck-portion 8 is annularly concavelike to facilitate handling thereof, and is coextensive with the periphery of the flange 12 and of the bottle body 7.

The cover-all cap 20 is designed for quick interlocking engagement with and to cover the soilable upper portion 9 of the neck-portion 8 to keep said portion 9 sanitary. It is substantially rigid and made of suitable material such as plastic and includes a preferably flat top disc 21 and a skirt 19 adapted to extend down and encompass also the flange 12. The upper portion of the skirt 19 is provided with one or more sections of external screwthreadlike means 22 in a horizontal plane, each angled like a screw-thread, adapted for quick interlocking engagement with the complementary sections of internal screw-threadlike means 18 in the periphery of the pouring lip 11. The lower portion of the inner surface of the skirt 19 is smooth and adapted for telescopic engagement with the complementary smooth surface upon the periphery of the flange 12. The cap may include a gasket 17.

The species illustrated in Figure 2, has the sections of internal screw-threadlike means 18. formed in the upper portion of the inner surface of the skirt 19 of the cap 20, and the sections of external screw-threadlike means 22 upon the periphery of the pouring lip 11. The rest is the same as in Fig. l.

The species illustrated in Fig. 3, has the sections of internal screw-threadlike means 18 formed in the periphery of the flange 12 and the sections of external screwthreadlike means 22 upon the inner surface of the lower portion of the skirt 19. The periphery of the pouring lip 11 and the inner surface of the upper portion of the skirt 19, having a smooth surface.

The species illustrated in Fig. 4, has the sections of internal screw-threadlike means 18 formed in the inner surface of the lower portion of the skirt 19 and the sections of external screw-threadlike means 22 upon the periphery of the flange 12. The rest is the same as in Fig. 3.

What I claim is:

In a bottle, a body portion, a reduced neck formed upon the bottle and providing an outlet passage for the contents of the bottle and a means for holding the bottle, a first annular bead formed upon the reduced neck intermediate the ends of the neck and spaced a substantial distance inwardly of the free end of the neck and projecting radially of the neck, a shallow annular recess arcuate in cross section formed in the top of said first bead and adapted to receive drippings caused when the contents of the bottle are poured through the neck of the bottle, a second annular bead formed upon the neck of the bottle at the free end of the neck and being of substantially the same diameter as the first bead and axially wider than the first bead and spaced axially of the first bead, there being an upwardly flaring inclined annular wall leading from the bottom of the second bead and curved to blend into said arcuate annular recess of the first bead at the inner circumference of said recess, said inclined annular wall overhanging the annular recess in superposed spaced relation thereto across the entire radial width of the recess, a cap for the neck of the bottle including a substantially fiat end wall to bear against the free end of the neck and a substantially cylindrical side wall for engagement over the neck, said side wall of the cap engaging over the peripheries of the first and second beads and contacting the peripheries of the beads and having its inner end terminating adjacent to the bottom of the first bead, whereby the side wall of the cap completely encloses said annular recess and said inclined annular wall, and means forming and interlocking sliding connection between the side wall of the cap and one of said beads and rendering the cap releasable from the neck by turning the cap in one direction relative to the neck.

References Cited in the file of this patent UNITED STATES PATENTS 1,977,589 Merolle Oct. 16, 1934 2,056,171 Desckner Oct. 6, 1936 2,097,912 Burnharn Nov. 2, 1937 FOREIGN PATENTS 14,552 Great Britain of 1894 900 Great Britain of 1900 

